brand resistant

I guess it started in 2003. Just after the protests in the major cities of Australia against the invasion of Iraq. I was so inspired by the diversity of people that had turned out. From business people in suits, to single mothers with their children, traditional families, students, queers, immigrants and everybody in between. I felt like I was a part of something. I felt that I would be telling my children one day how we prevented a gross injustice through solidarity. Instead despite 75% of Australians being against it, our government backed the US invasion and Baghdad was demolished.

I felt defeated, deflated and disillusioned. If a democratically elected government could go against the wishes of 75% of its people then we were no longer a democracy and the power of protest all but gone.

What good was our solidarity if it didn't effect change? Did innocent Iraqi's feel consoled by it? I think not.

But I refused to become apathethic. I refused to resign. If you can change the opinion of a single person then in the modern dictaorship that is the free world, surely that is considered a revolution.

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